The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

IS named among the new fashionaDle
eolors. = Chicago Herald.
I'm New York City there are said to
be $500 families who receive help from
charitable associations and the city.
A wonderful gold mine has been
discovered in Sonora, Mex. The miners
get pure metal by breaking the quartz
with hammers.
The double-turret ship Trafalgar.
which is the largest armor-clad that has
ever been built ut Portsmouth, England.
is to be ready for launching next Sep
tember. She was only begun last
January.
A farmer near Waldron. Mo-, has
healthy four-months-old pig that has
two feet on each leg, and on each foot
five toes. Such breed of pigs would
be profitable in community partial to
picked pig s-feet.-St Louis Post.
The London Caristian World rightly
says that 1.-THE promise to pay for
newspaper is neither more nor less
sacred than promise to pay for farm
On. B. Dear reader. have you paid for
your paper?-U United Presbyterian
The candied sweet potato is Phil
adelphia confectionery. 1t is nothing
but sweet potatoes carefully boiled and
quartered and then candied in boiling
sirup. but it is said to be dainty and
tender and of delicious flavor
"A mine of beryls is new find in
Connecticut The beryls already taken
out include the variety known as golden
heryls, and rank as precious stones
only two places lower than diamonds.
There are also other brilliant eolors
found in this mine--HGrtfoga Courdnt.
Berlin is to have a new Roman
! bath-house on grand scale and fur
nished with all ancient and modern
luxuries. Among the novel features
win be laundry in which guests can
have their clothes washed and ironed
while they are bathing.
! An elderly gentleman who delights
4 in calculations contributes this: IF the
I immortal George Washington, when he
was forty eight years of age. had stepped
into railroad office and pawned his
j title hatchet for ticket to the planet
Mars, he would at the rate of fifty miles
an hour. have arrived there this year"
st. AitdnS Messenger.
The coast of Norway is sinking
gradually. while that of Sweden is
I emerging more and more, and the Bal
I tie is becoming shallower. Landmarks
made on the Swedish coast by the cele-
hrated naturalist Linneus. at the be-
ginning of the eighteenth century, show
hat this unheaval raises that coast about
{
-Twelve-year-old James Manley, of
/ North Hastings, while out in the woods
with an axe and dog. came upon bic
buck. The dog started in pursuit. the
deer slipped on the ice and his antlers
became entangled in some brush, and
Jimmy, rushing up. killed the deer with
one blow of the axe. He is the proud
est boy in Canada Montreal HTtness.
There was a missionary concert at
a Rockland church the other evening,
md among other things was paper on
missionary work read by a young lady:
When she had finished. the leader of
The meeting said: I'VE will now sing
ualleluiah, lis Done" Whereat
everybody smiled. -Roekiaad Courier
/ Gazette.
Prof. Rogers, of Waterville College,
| Maine, has recently compared fourteen
of the most trustworthy Thermometers
in the town with his standard instru-
ment Tests were made at six grades
IF temperature, or eighty-four tests in
I'll, and in only four of these were the
! town thermometers correct In eighty
cases they were all wrong from one
fourth of degree to four degrees, while
one instrument was eleven degrees out
of the way.
Luke LAWSON dog barked at Allen
Ballantyne as he was going to school
He went home and got revolver. and
when the dog barked at him again
ired. The ball went wide of the dog.
but crashed through a window and
struck Mrs. Lawson in the breast as she
sat rocking her baby. She lived but a
few moments. Young Ballantyne told
his father what had happened. and the
Did man handed his son over to the au-
shorities. This was at Lake George,
Y. B.
"A Norwegian engineer. w. G. Mol
Ter, has found that reindeer hair and
/ skin possesses remarkable buoyaucy;
and when the unshorn skin is used as
iife-belt, it has the advantage over cork
If warming the wearer while in the
water. He attributes great value to
suits made from reindeer hair. one of
which of the weight Of pound may
Keep a man from drowning, while it
furnishes greater protection from cold
Lhan nilskin and other materials.